The Blue Zones Project is an initiative to encourage residents to lead healthier, more fulfilling and longer lives. Since the 
Winnebago Council is now Blue Zone Certified, we’re encouraging all of our Packs, Troops, and Crews to work towards living healthier lifestyles as well! Here are a few ideas of how you can participate through Scouting to get you started:
- Have healthy snacks and provide water at meetings
- Plant a garden or help with community gardens. Here’s a list of schools in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area that need help:
http://legacy.winnebagobsa.org/News/Summer-Garden-Project-2014 - Go on more hikes
- Work on your cooking merit badge
- Take the Blue Zones Pledge and learn more at https://iowa.bluezonesproject.com/
- Like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CedarValleyBlueZonesProject
- Like them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BZP_CedarValley
What is the Blue Zones Project?
Across the globe the Blue Zones areas, where people reach age 100 at an astonishing rate. Citizens of places like Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; and Loma Linda, California, have maintained their healthy lifestyles for generations.
The Blue Zones Project aims to adopt the lifestyle principles of these areas to transform American cities and towns into Blue ones Communities, where people can “live longer, better” lives.
They follow a structure called Power 9:
- Move Naturally
- Know Your Purpose
- Down Shift
- 80% Rule
- Plant Slant
- Wine @ Five
- Right Tribe
- Community
- Loved Ones First
You can find out more at https://iowa.bluezonesproject.com
